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The Need for an American Plan

by Theodore Brameld - 1940

WHERE are we going?" That is a question Americans seldom ask, for they have not needed to ask it. Theirs has been a country rich in natural resources, in vast frontiers, offering the average citizen of ability and industry a fair chance to succeed in at least some modest way. Yet the very riches, which hastened our development, have been in no mild way responsible for our difficulties today. As a nation we have worried little about our own future. Since our beginnings we have always placed tremendous confidence in our resources and resourcefulness; in our lands, forests, rivers, factories; in ourselves.

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 6 Number 50, 1940, p. 111-112
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 14036, Date Accessed: 9/29/2020 1:07:09 PM

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